Talk:Half dollar (United States coin)

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The only place I've encountered half-dollars is at Renaissance Faire, where almost everything is priced in increments of 50 cents to keep the change situation simple. However, I've only seen this in Southern California, so I'm not willing to add it without reports from other people in other areas. No point putting it up if it's confined to one location... 82.3.43.78 13:46, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

The place I most frequently encounter half dollars is at the poker table. In the casino cardrooms in Atlantic City (and presumably in cardrooms all over the United States), half dollars are used for the ante, rake, or bring-in bet (depending on the game structure) in the low-limit seven-card stud games ($1-$3 Limit or $1-$5 Spread Limit in my experience). I've added this to article in the trivia section, since people may be wondering what half dollars are good for. Feel free to critique it. --Hex 16 01:13, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Or black jack where smallest bet is $1, $3, or some odd number. In that case, half dollar may be required for blackjack. Using 2 quarters does not too much sense. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 05:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm suspicious of that explanation as a sole, or even main, reason for the half-dollar's rarity. Mintage figures for halves were much lower than for quarters for quite some time before the Kennedy assassination. While that sequence of events may have finished it off, it seems to have already been uncommon prior to it. Nik42 07:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)